Don't filter your email based on AI detection — you'll lose real mail
fivefilters · reddit · 2026-10-19
A blog post warns against auto-filtering inbound email by AI detection: detectors have high false-positive rates and flag genuinely human-written mail as AI-generated, so using them as a drop criterion loses real messages (pitches, job inquiries, reader mail). Treat detection scores as a signal, not a verdict.
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